Edward Carrington Eq^r Supervisor Richmond Accountants Office July 24 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Fourteen hundred &sixty two Dollars & sixty nine cents which you will be pleased to pay to Cap^t Richards Black[burn] at Port Norfolk, taking the necessary receipts holding them accountable being for the pay of himself & his company including forage of Surgeons mate, William Barnwell & the pay of the Detachment of Lieu^t Claiborne to the 30 June 98 and also for retained bounties due the Recruits enlisted by the said Lieu^t Claiborne — I am S^r W Simmons Acct Lieu^t & Nich^ls Freeman Temp^y Pay master West Point Accountants Office July 26 1798 Sir On comparing the signature of John Day lately enlisted by Lieu^t David Hale with that of John Day enlisted by Littlefield they both appear to have been wrote by the same person, I therefore request you will be pleased to cause a descriptive list to be taken of them and forward it to me accompanied by their real signatures — they are both mustered in Cap^t Littlefield's Company for June 17[98] I am S^r W Simmons Acct